Shreshtha

“The world might crumble, but Nikolai Lantsov would be holding up the ceiling with one hand and plucking a speck of dirt from his lapel with the other when it all went to ruin”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“I wasn’t the beacon of Royal purity, but rather the wolf dressed as the sacrificial lamb. I wouldn’t just fulfill the deal that King Roderick had struck. I would end it before it destroyed my kingdom.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout

“They left the garden and walked back through the woods. On the path, they parted as they always did—she to the Grisha, and he to the Grand Palace. He wanted to call her back. He wanted to follow her through the snow. But his country didn’t need a heartsick boy chasing after a lonely girl. It needed a king.
“And a king they will have,”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Your heart is in your eyes, Your Highness," murmured Tamar, wiping the sweat from her brow.
Tolya poled his twin in the arm with a sparring sword. "Tamar knows because that's the way she looks at her wife"
"I am free to look at my wife any way I please."
"But Zoya is not Nikolai's wife.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves